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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/16] xfs: align writepages to large block sizes
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 08:32:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181111163227.GA8714@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181111012057.GK19305@dastard>

On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 12:20:57PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > +	if (wbc->range_start)
> > > +		wbc->range_start = round_down(wbc->range_start, bsize);
> > > +	if (wbc->range_end != LLONG_MAX)
> > > +		wbc->range_end = round_up(wbc->range_end, bsize);
> > > +	if (wbc->nr_to_write < wbc->range_end - wbc->range_start)
> > > +		wbc->nr_to_write = round_up(wbc->nr_to_write, bsize);
> > 
> > This looks fine to me, but I'd be much more comfortable it we had
> > it in the common writeback code instead of inside XFS.
> 
> Where in the common code? there's quite a few places that can call
> ->writepages...

As far as I can tell the only place calling ->writepages is
do_writepages, which sounds like the right place to me.  Maybe
conditional on a block size > page size to reduce the scare factor.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-12  2:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-07  6:31 [RFC PATCH 00/16] xfs: Block size > PAGE_SIZE support Dave Chinner
2018-11-07  6:31 ` [PATCH 01/16] xfs: drop ->writepage completely Dave Chinner
2018-11-09 15:12   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-12 21:08     ` Dave Chinner
2021-02-02 20:51       ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-11-07  6:31 ` [PATCH 02/16] xfs: move writepage context warnings to writepages Dave Chinner
2018-11-07  6:31 ` [PATCH 03/16] xfs: finobt AG reserves don't consider last AG can be a runt Dave Chinner
2018-11-07 16:55   ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-11-09  0:21     ` Dave Chinner
2018-11-07  6:31 ` [PATCH 04/16] xfs: extent shifting doesn't fully invalidate page cache Dave Chinner
2018-11-07  6:31 ` [PATCH 05/16] iomap: sub-block dio needs to zeroout beyond EOF Dave Chinner
2018-11-09 15:15   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-07  6:31 ` [PATCH 06/16] iomap: support block size > page size for direct IO Dave Chinner
2018-11-08 11:28   ` Nikolay Borisov
2018-11-09 15:18   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-11  1:12     ` Dave Chinner
2018-11-07  6:31 ` [PATCH 07/16] iomap: prepare buffered IO paths for block size > page size Dave Chinner
2018-11-09 15:19   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-11  1:15     ` Dave Chinner
2018-11-07  6:31 ` [PATCH 08/16] iomap: mode iomap_zero_range and friends Dave Chinner
2018-11-09 15:19   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-07  6:31 ` [PATCH 09/16] iomap: introduce zero-around functionality Dave Chinner
2018-11-07  6:31 ` [PATCH 10/16] iomap: enable zero-around for iomap_zero_range() Dave Chinner
2018-11-07  6:31 ` [PATCH 11/16] iomap: Don't mark partial pages zeroing uptodate for zero-around Dave Chinner
2018-11-07  6:31 ` [PATCH 12/16] iomap: zero-around in iomap_page_mkwrite Dave Chinner
2018-11-07  6:31 ` [PATCH 13/16] xfs: add zero-around controls to iomap Dave Chinner
2018-11-07  6:31 ` [PATCH 14/16] xfs: align writepages to large block sizes Dave Chinner
2018-11-09 15:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-11  1:20     ` Dave Chinner
2018-11-11 16:32       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-11-14 14:19   ` Brian Foster
2018-11-14 21:18     ` Dave Chinner
2018-11-15 12:55       ` Brian Foster
2018-11-16  6:19         ` Dave Chinner
2018-11-16 13:29           ` Brian Foster
2018-11-19  1:14             ` Dave Chinner
2018-11-07  6:31 ` [PATCH 15/16] xfs: expose block size in stat Dave Chinner
2018-11-07  6:31 ` [PATCH 16/16] xfs: enable block size larger than page size support Dave Chinner
2018-11-07 17:14 ` [RFC PATCH 00/16] xfs: Block size > PAGE_SIZE support Darrick J. Wong
2018-11-07 22:04   ` Dave Chinner
2018-11-08  1:38     ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-11-08  9:04       ` Dave Chinner
2018-11-08 22:17         ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-11-08 22:22           ` Dave Chinner

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